Motor-driven kitchen utensil



2 Sheets-Sheet 1 YH. G. ROSS Filed April l2, 1933 MOTOR DRIVEN KITCHEN UTENSIL Feb. 2, 1937.

AT'ToRNEY WITNEssEs;

Feb. 2, 1937. H. G. Ross MOTOR -DRIVEN KITCHEN UTENSIL 2 Smets-sheet 2 f-/IT/ Filed April 12, 1935 INVENTOR Hag/7 E055.

` ATTORNEY WITNESSES:

Patented Feb. 2, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MOTOR-DRIYEN KITCHEN UTENSIL of Pennsylvania Application April 12, 1933, Serial No. 665,720

Claims. (Cl. 259-84) My invention relates to motor-driven kitchen devices and particularly to motor-driven combination kitchen utensils.

An object of my invention is to provide a rela- 5 tively simple and compact motor-driven beater or mixer.

Another object of my invention is to provide a motor-driven beater that shall be operative to o cause positive rotation of a bowl associated there- 1 vvariations in the speed of rotation of the bowl.

Another object of my invention is to provide a motor-driven combination beater or mixer that shall embody means for driving a fruit juice extrator that may be operatively associated there- Another object of my inventiolais to provide a motor-driven kitchen appliance in which the motor shall normally be supported in one position but shall be easily and quickly removable from its support to enable the user to hold manually in any desired position.

Other objects will either be pointed out hereinafter or will be evident from the description of 25`one form of device embodying my invention shown in the drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view, mainly in vertical section, of a device embodying my invention,

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view in side elevation 30 showing particularly the base of my device, and

Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of my improved device, with parts broken away showing the internal construction thereof.

In practicing my invention, I providea base,

35 a vertical standard thereon having turning movement relatively to the base, means for turning the standard and for locking it in definite positions, and a motor supported on the standard, having two opposed limiting positions thereon, and removable therefrom in'an intermediate position. A pair of beater elements depend' from the motor and are driven thereby, extending into a bowl which may be turned by the diierential frictional engagement of the lower ends of the beater rodswith the bottom wall of the bowl, the rods being bowl thereon in proper relative operative posi-V 55 tions. The base II hasintegral therewith and with and that shall also embody means to causel located adjacent to one end thereof a short tubular upright member I2 which is adapted to receive the lower end of a vertically-extending standard I3 which is of substantially L-shape in general outline. The standard I3 'and the tubular portion I2 are so machined relatively to one another that the standard I3 extends into the tubular'member I2 and may have turning movement relatively thereto and while I have illustrated a particular embodiment of interiitting parts, it is obvious that other equivalent arrangements eiective for the same purpose may be devised.I

Turning movement of the standard I3 relatively to the base I I may be effected by means of an actuating arm Il which may be of substantially bar-shape and secured to the lower `end of standard I3 by a pair of machine screws I6.

The arrangement is such that the lower end of standard I3 projects slightly beyond the bottom wall of portion I2. A handle I1 is provided on the olf-set outer end portion of arm I 4, which arm may either have a struck-up portion or be made narrow enough at one part of its length to intert selectivelywith any one of a plurality of recesses` I8 provided in one of the vdepending flange portions of the base, here designated by numeral I9. The bar I4 is made sufficiently resilient to permit of pressing it downwardly in order to move it out of one of the recesses I8 after which it may be turned until it is in engagement with another one of said recesses, for a purpose to be hereinafter set forth in detail.

The upper; end of standard I3 extends substantially horizontally and the upper wall portion of the standard I3 which, 'as may be seen from Fig. 1 of the drawings, is'made hollow, is cut away in order to receive and properly support a motor assembly 2|. The motor includes a housing 22, a stator 23, ield coils 24 and a rotor .26 which, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, may

be provided with a commutator 21, so that the device may be used on either a direct current circuit or `an alternating current circuit, the motor being'of the so-called universal type, and being supplied with energy through suitable leads 25. The housing 22 has a cover member 28 at one end thereof suitably secured thereto and bearings 29 and 3| are provided in the housing 22 and the cover 28 to support the rotor shaft 32 of rotor. 26. I provide further a pair of cooperating and relatively movable disks 33 and 34 having contacts thereon, (not shown) whereby to vary the speed of rotor 26 'in any desired manner, either by 'diIIerent connections to the eld coils or by the use of a resistor in the circuit. A small fan 36 may be mounted on the rotor shaft 32 and be located within the cover, suitable openings being provided in the cover and the other end of they housing so that the fan may draw air therethrough and past the rotor and the stator.

The rotor shaft 32 is provided with an integral portion having a worm thread 31 thereon, this portion being located between two worm wheels 38 and 39 in order that the rotor shaft may drive two short shaft elements 4I and 42 in opposite directions.

Members 4I and 42 are made of tubular shape in order that two beater rods 43 and 44 may be operatively associated therewith by being fitted into the members 4I and 42 and held therein by any suitable means here shown as a bayonet joint 46, shown more particularly in Fig. 3 of the drawings. A helical spring 41 is located within each tubular element 4I and 42, the upper end of the beater rods compressing these, not only to make the bayonet joint interlock more effectively, but also forv a purpose to be hereinafter. described. Any suitable or desired bearing structure for driven elements 4I and 42 may be provided and as such are old in the art no-detailed description thereof is believed to be necessary.

The extreme outer end of rotor shaft 32, beyond that portion having worm threads 31 thereon, is located in the end wall 48 ofthe housing 22 which provides a bearing therefor and a cover disk 49 may be utilized to cover up the outer end of shaft 32 and for this purpose may be resiliently fitted into a depression 5I in portion 48.

As it is desired to be able to remove the motor structure proper from the base and standard so that an operator may hold the same in his or her hand during use thereof, I provide a handle 52, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The motor housing 22 has a lower or depending portion 53 which has intertting engagement in the substantially horizontally extending portion 54 of standard I3-so that the weight of the motor will tend to hold it in proper operative position relatively to portion 54. In order to provide further interlocking engagement, the portion 53 has a substantially spherical or arcuate portion indicated by numeral 56 in Fig. 1 of the drawings, which ts with a cooperating seat 51 in the standard and a pin 58 is fixedly mounted in and extends across the rear portion of part 54, the portion 56 of the motor having a recess 59 therein with a reduced width of opening as shown more particularly in Fig. 1 of the drawings. 'I'he configuration of recess 59 is such that when the motor shaft is horizontal, the pin 58 will be in the position shown, at one end or side portion of recess 59.

When it is desired to have the motor shaft extend vertically, the motor may be tilted backwardly, from the position shown in the drawings, (Fig. l), until the pin 58 is located at the other end portion of recess 59. It is obvious that the motor structure and the beater rodsmay be removed from standard I3 when the motor is in an intermediate position, when the pin 58 wi move freely out of the recess 59.

Driven member 4| may be provided with an upwardly extending portion 6I which may have a slot in its upper end to receive a projection 62 at the lower end of a driven shaft 63, at the upper end of which is mounted a reamer 64 which is part of a juice extractor. The juice extractor includes further a bowl 86 having a down spout 61 which has supported thereon a drip catcher 68, of trough-shape, which is pivotally mounted on the spout 61 as by cooperating projections and recesses on each side thereof which are indicated generally by the numeral 69. A plurality of substantially similar cooperating recesses and projections 1I at one side of the spout and the drip catcher 68 enables the user to either locate the drip catcher 68 in the position shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, or in a forwardly or in a backwardly tilted juice-guiding position. The user is thus enabled to cause juice extracted from citrous fruits to flow into a glass set beside the device or into a bowl 12, which bowl is located on a rotatable dished member 13, or to use it as a means for catching the last few drops of juice. The dished member 13 is rotatably supported on a short shaft 14 and a plurality of ball bearings 16.

The juice extractor assembly is such as to provide a depending lug 11, shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, which fits into a recess in a top plate 18 secured to the outer end of housing 22 to provide a flat support for the juice extractor. The lug 11 intertting with the second recess precludes turning movement of the extractor on the plate 18 while in use. f

Eachl of the beater rods 43 and 44 is provided with a plurality of bowed members 19, made of wire or strips of a suitable resilient material, which may be bent to be substantially circular in outline or the vsame may be bent to more or less oval outline. Each of. the beater rods has a substantially at bottom end indicated by numeral 8l in Fig. 1 of the drawings, which bottom end is resiliently pressed against the bottom wall 82 of a bowl, which bottom wall may be slightly located at substantially equal distances away from a vertical plane passing throughthe center of the bowl. It is evident, therefore, that if the two beaters are being operated in different directions, no turning movement of the bowl will result because of the frictional driving engagement of the end portion 8| with the upper surface of bottom wall 82. A user of the device can, therefore, beat, stir or mix material in the bowl without causing any turning movement of the bowl. If, however, he should desire to effect turning movement of the bowl, this can be done by eiecting a turning movement of standard I3 by means of arm I4, so that the two beater rods will be located eccentrically of the central portion -of the bowl. As was stated above, the two beater rods rotate in opposite directions but the length of the effective lever arm of one of the beater rods is greater than that of the other beater rod (that is when they are moved eccentrically relatively to the center of the bowl) and a turning movement of the bowl will result, which turning movement may be varied by turning movement of the standard on the base. I, therefore, provide a plurality of small recesses I8 at each side of that recess which locates the beater rods centrally of the bowl, so that I can obtain either a relatively slow rotation of the bowl or a rotation at a somewhat higher speed. It is further obvious that the bowl may be rotated by the frictional engagement therewith of only one rotating element.

'I'he bowl support 13 is provided with a pair of .concentric annular recesses 83 and 84, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, in order that a large bowl, aslindicated by numeral 12. may be used or sol that a smaller bowl indicated by numeral 8B in Fig. 3 of the drawings can be used.

The device embodying my invention thus pro- 4 vides a relatively simple and compact motordriven kitchen appliance for beating, stirring or mixing different kinds of materials and in which the beaters themselves by differential frictional engagement with the top surface of the bottom wall of `a freely rotatable bowl, cause rotation of the bowl.

I may here point out that it is also possible to use the device embodying my invention and particularly the bowed members 19 to remove material in the bowl from the upper inner surface thereof. To do this, it is only necessary that the operator or user tilt the motor on its support holding it in its arcuate seat by the handle 52, and atthe same time effect the proper amount of turning movement by use of arm I4 so that the bowed members 19 will lightly engage the inner surface of the bowl below the upper edge thereof, whereby material which may adhere thereto can be easily and quickly removed from the bowl surface.

Various modifications may be made in the device embodying my invention without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, and I desire, therefore, that only such limitations shall -be placed thereon as are imposed by the prior art or are set forth in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a motor-driven kitchen utensil, a base. a vertically-extending standard thereon, a motor on the standard, a beater depending from and driven by the motor, a container for material to be mixed or beaten receiving the beater, anarm secured tothe standard for turning the same through a predetermined angular distance and means on the base cooperating with the arm to lock the same in adjusted position.

2. In a motor-driven ldtchen utensil, a base,.a

standard thereon, a motor on the standard, a-

beater depending from and driven by the motor, a container for material to be beaten or mixed receiving the beater, a4 freely rotatable support f on the base for the container, an arm secured to tion thereof by direct contact and differential y action of both beater elements therewith and means secured to the standard for moving the same tol stop rotation of the bowl while maintaining said contact.

4. In a motor-driven kitchen utensil, a base, a freely-rotatable bowl support on the base, a standard on the base, a motor on the standard, a pair oi.' beaters depending from and driven by the motor in opposite directions for stirring materail in a bowl located on the bowl support, the bottom ends of the beaters operatively engaging the bottom wall of the bowl to cause rotation of the bowl bydiiIerential frictional action thereon.

5. In a motor-driven kitchen vutensil,.a base, a freely-rotatable bowl support on the base, a standard on the base, a motor on the standard, a

pair of beater elements depending from and drivl vertical standard on the base, a motor on the standard and a pair oi.' yieldingly mounted beater rods depending from and driven by the motor,

the lower ends of said beater rods being adapted to frictionally engage the bottom wall of a bowl located on the bowl support to cause rotation thereof by differential frictional action thereon.

7. In a motor-driven kitchen utensil, a base, a vertical standard thereon, a motor supported on the standard and cooperating means on the motor and on the standard for holding the motor on the standard in two opposed limiting positions and for enabling removal of the motor from the standard in an intermediate position.

8. In a motor-driven kitchen utensil, .a base, a vertical standard thereon having a recess in its upper surface, a motor assembly adapted to rest in the recess, a pin and anoverhung slot' inthe standard and the motor assembly respectively for holding the motor assembly in its normal operative position on the standard.

9. In a motor-driven kitchen utensil, a base, a .vertical standard thereon having a recess in its upper surface, ai motor assembly adapted to rest in the recess, a pin -and an overhung slot in the standard and the motor assembly for holding the motor on the standard in two opposed limiting positions and for enabling removal of the motor assembly from the standard in an intermediate position.

10. In a motor-driven kitchen utensil, a base,

a freely-rotatable bowl support on the base, a

standard on the base, a motor on the standard, a pair of beater elements depending from and driven by the motor in opposite Vdirections for stirring material in a bowl located on the bowl support, the beater elements operatively engaging the bowl at different points to cause rotation thereof by differential frictional action thereon.

HUGH G. ROSS. 

